Still AWOL

On the up-side I’m keeping alive some skills I’ve not used for a while.  On the downside it’s very frustrating that I’m not getting any work done at the Scuderia.  My petrol tank is assembled but I ran out of rods when brazing it up…I was 6” short!!  But for the time being I’m still on home improvement duty.

I’ve built another cabinet for the new utility room which turned out quite well I think.  It’s inspired by 1950’s and 60’s utility furniture larder cabinets, with a long broom cupboard and a multitude of cupboards and drawers.  I stopped short of a hinge down work surface because that’s just not as useful today as it would have been back then.

I still have a kitchen to refit, it’s coming along but there’s a couple more weeks of work there.  It doesn’t help that the day job is frantic at the minute too.  I’m a bit frazzled to be honest but I’ll start posting some of the build up to the tank soon, I promise.

Everything And The Kitchen Sink

I’m about 2/3rds of the way through making a new petrol tank for the camper.  I’ll post details about that when it’s finished but I’ve been comprehensively diverted from tin bashing projects by some home improvements.

We’ve just had an extension built that will be our new utility room and I’ve been painting and decorating and building a cabinet for the butlers sink to stand on.  I quite enjoy woodworking, the only trouble with wood is that it’s made out of wood.  It would be much better if they made wood out of steel.  If you cut wood in the wrong place you can’t weld it back on again!

The new work surfaces arrive next week, so hopefully after next weekend I can get back to bashing stuff. Of course, I’ll still have the kitchen to refit…….